The New Mithraeum Database

Rosenheim is a city in Bavaria, Germany.

Mithras the Cattle-Rustler: The Persian Cult of Fire as Divided into Sexed Powers and the Hidden Cave Rites of the Magi.

Passage from Plutarch’s Life of Pompey, recounting the rise, power, and insolence of the Cilician pirates before Pompey’s campaign to suppress them.

Dion Chrysostom, c. 100 A.D., a philosophical writer under the emperors Nerva and Trajan, composed a series of discourses or essays (λόγοι) on various subjects, in one of which he reports concerning the doctrines and practices of the magi.

The scholiast Lactantius Placidus comments on Statius’ passage identifying the Sun as Titan, Osiris, and Mithras, interpreting the Persian cave figure with the bull.

Governor of Numidia in 303, vir perfectissimus Valerius Florus was a well-known persecutor of Christians.

He was a soldier of the Cohors I Belgarum, probably of Dalmatian origin, who dedicated an altar to Mithras in Aufustianis.

Roman citizen who dedicated an altar to the invincible Mithras in Teutoburgium.

Dux of Pannonia Prima et Noricum Ripense, he built a mithraeum in Poetovio.

Founder of the Arasacid dynasty, Tiridates I was crowned king of Armenia by Nero in 66.

Fifth Roman emperor and last of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, reigning from 54 until his death in 68.

Centurion who dedicated the first known Latin inscription to the invincible Mithras.

Legate of the Legion II Adiutrix, stationed in Aquincum.

Dedicated a floor mosaic to his god.

Fructus was the slave who paid for the erection of the Mitreo del Sabazeo in Ostia.

Syndexios in Ostia, his name Marsus suggests that he was a snake-charmer.

Slave and bailiff of Tiberius Claudius Livianus.

A freedman of Septimius Severus, he was Pater and priest of the invincible Mithras, as mentioned in a marble inscription found in Rome.

Garlic merchant, probably from Lusitania, who dedicated an altar to Cautes in Tarraconensis.

Pater Patrum of Ostia, he officiated at the Mitreo Aldobrandini where he is mentioned in a couple of inscriptions.